Creative people tend to be more dishonest

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The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest

Published: February 10, 2011
Authors: Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely

• Creative students who showed a natural aptitude for divergent thinking tended to cheat more than linear thinkers.
• Creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence.
• Students who were deliberately induced to think creatively were, in turn, more likely to cheat than those who weren't primed to think outside the box.
• Creative people are more likely to cheat in part because their creativity helps them to come up with ingenious explanations to justify their unethical behavior.